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...story goes that Itagaki wanted to commit hara-kiri after his disgrace, that his aides forcibly dissuaded him. The known fact is more characteristic of Itagaki. He did not spill his bowels. Instead he returned to Tokyo and shortly attained the highest post open to him: War Minister in the cabinet of Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Men in other armies concluded that he was a mere politician, a fixer, a conniver who throve on the favor of better...
...first time in history, Christian ministers participated last week in observing the solemn Jewish day of mourning, Tisha b'Av. Their action was expressive of the growing understanding among religious groups throughout the civilized world. Bishop Edwin V. O'Hara of Kansas City urged "all who profess the Christian faith [to] understand the declaration of Pope Pius XI that 'all Christians are spiritually Semites...
...Despite the photograph released by the Japanese and purporting to show General Jonathan Wainwright surrendering at Corregidor to General Masaharu Homma, Douglas MacArthur is convinced that Homma is dead. In March Corregidor had word that a Jap general of high rank had committed hara-kiri in Manila. His body was publicly carried to a crematorium while soldiers lined the streets. Next day a special plane bearing an urn of ashes took off from Manila. Homma was not seen again in the Philippines and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, succeeded-according to Tokyo's own announcement-to the command...
...nurses] operating on her own-General Stilwell came in and watched us without our knowing he was there. As soon as he got to Maymyo he sent down the only U.S. Army medical man he had in Burma, a dentist named Captain (now Major) Donald M. O'Hara, and telegraphed Chungking to send down an abdominal surgeon trained at the Mayo Clinic, a Captain John Grindlay, to work with me. Grindlay, after having Koi, Kyang Lewi and Maru Bauk assist him at various particularly bad cases, adopted the whole crowd, and to this day tells everyone they...
...making pictures like "To the Shores of Tripoli" is no way to pay off the debt. In fact, a few more like it and the Marines will be the laughing as well as the fighting stock of the nation. The acting isn't bad--John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott have no trouble giving adequate performances. But any resemblance between the story here and a good plot, or between this film and an honest-to-goodness he-man thriller is very well camouflaged. Instead of the Marines making a man out of the Culver kid, John Payne...